CHAPTER 151
When Nurse Dormer had gone into Judith’s room, after telling Standish to go to bed, the latter had turned towards the stairway which would take him to his own room, and had then changed his mind and gone downstairs for a drink. Standish was an abstemious man by nature, and he did not generally care much for drinks. When he came to Templedean he took to drinking wine with his meals just because the other members of the household did so and he was anxious to conform, but he had no palate for wines. Had he been blindfolded he would have been hard put to it to say what was in his glass. Neither did he like the taste of whisky, though its warming and stimulating qualities seemed worth while if he were tired or cold. But he had no head for drinks, and he knew it.
Standish had been
